Comments about ‘Common Core spawns widespread political fights’

Owen, The movement to get out of NCLB was started far before states signed on
CC. The truth is most states were desperate not to lose federal money due to
poor test scores. States which worked with the NGO which created the idea of
similar core standards, begin writing core standards under the impression they
would be able to have their own curricula. Utah Core was developed from that
and we begin developing our own curricula. In 2011, The Dept of Ed issued the
waivers and most governors or state school boards accepted them without
legislative approval. But the waiver had strings attached to it and part of it
was accepting the approved core curriculum that Dept of Ed blessed. Again, you
can play word games and call that curriculum anything you want to, but it
doesn't change the fact that it was developed to support the CC standards
and the states were weaseled into accepting that to get out of NCLB.

The opposition to the NGOs idea didn't start until 2011 because that is
when well informed educators and other advocates who support local education
realized it would destroy their ability to effect change in their local
communities.